Explorer Foundation Update

Participants in the AAPG-AAPG Foundation’s annual Imperial Barrel Award competition already know of the program’s significant impact on their education and its lasting value to their careers.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Geoscientists play a lot of different roles in our industry, but foremost, we are technical and scientific experts. We understand the rocks, their depositional history and their potential to generate hydrocarbons.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

Coherence and curvature attribute computations are usually carried out on stacked seismic data volumes to delineate faults, flexures and large fractures. If the vertically-aligned parallel fractures in the subsurface are filled with fluid, or weakly cemented, the P-wave velocity across the fractures will be slower than that parallel to the fractures. These differences give rise to a velocity variation with azimuth. Because impedance is the product of density and velocity, such fractures also give rise to amplitude variation with offset.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

It isn’t so much a lack of demand creating the ongoing oil supply glut, but a lack of market connectivity: the United States needs more oil pipelines.

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Events Blog

Use ACE to help spotlight your brand and connect with the global geoscience community. Sponsoring a scientific event like ACE shows your commitment to advancing the geosciences and reinvesting into growing the exploration industry. 

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Events Blog

ACE provides a unique business platform that ensures your company’s name and brand are in the minds of your target audience. Showcase your company’s products and services to more than 7,400 attendees from more than 81 countries looking to you for solutions to key challenges facing our industry. 

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Events Blog

Register now for the 2019 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), held 19-22 May 2019, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, and save your seats for these training events.

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Events Blog

Register now for the 2019 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), held 19-22 May 2019, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. 

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Events Blog

Learn how machine learning and analytics are transforming the way that the industry explores for and produces oil and gas with these two training events.  

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Explorer President’s Column

Six months have passed since I started writing and speaking on sustainable development. While writing this column at the end of the year for publication in the January EXPLORER to start the new year, it seems appropriate to take a closer look at sustainable development and petroleum basins from both past and future perspectives.

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Jerry Hickman Jerry L. Hickman President (2022-2023) JLH Geophysical Services (512) 751-7527
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No Image Sandra Elliott Vice President (2022-2023) SM Energy (432) 935-2075
Paul H. Pause Paul H. Pausé Past President(2022-2023) Independent (432) 664-4938
No Image Mark N. Varhaug Secretary (2022-2023) Beacon Hill Energy (214) 549-0456
No Image Stephen Denham Treasurer (2022-2023) Colgate Energy (405) 921-1587
Nicolas Brisette Nicolas Brissette Advisory Counselor (2022-2023) MDC Texas Energy (940) 256-3305

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